Giving & Volunteering

Volunteer with Krishna.com

Join our family of volunteers worldwide who work on improving Krishna.com as an offering of love. Experience the bliss of devotional service to Krishna by spreading His glories on the Internet. Volunteer your time, talents, skills and abilities in His service, seva.

Chances are, if you can read and browse the web, you have enough skills to engage in service at Krishna.com. And you probably have many other skills. Download our Volunteer Engagement Form, as a generic RTF file, as a Word Document, or as plain text file. Fill it out, and email it back to us (see instructions on the form). Or, contact us and we'll send you the form in an email.

There is so much we can do together to spread the glories of Krishna on the Internet. So many ways to engage our mind and senses in His service. Don't be discouraged if you don't see a volunteer position below that fits you. Fill out and send us your Volunteer Engagement Form (see above) and let's find a service you can get excited about doing for Krishna.

Services you can volunteer for

• Cook & Recipe Tester

  Krishna.com has recently upgraded its food section (food.krishna.com) with many new recipes.

  • Help us prepare and test each recipe to ensure quality control, and submit any issues to us so we can improve them.

• Community Section Moderator

  Keep an eye on posts and contributions from visitors in the community section. Delete spammers, nuisance posts, and anything that shouldn't be published in Krishna.com's community pages. You can also answer newbie questions and assist those who are using the community section in having an optimal experience there.

• Videographer

  If images speak a thousand words, moving images speak volumes. Many people with broadband connections would rather watch a short video about a topic than read a page of text. Help us film, edit and upload little video clips to illustrate each section, each topical page on Krishna.com.

• Writer

  Stories and articles need to be written. Good writers are hard to find. If communicating ideas in writing is something you're reasonably good at, consider serving on our team of volunteer writers who contribute content to Krishna.com. We can give you a list of topics / articles we would like to have written for the site. We're also open to new ideas. Start authoring your own blog and share it with us. If necessary, our editors will work with you to polish your writing and make it suitable for publication on Krishna.com.

• Proofreader

  Carefully read newly published articles on the site (or systematically go through old ones) and help us find spelling and grammar mistakes.

• Promoter

  Make others aware about Krishna conscious content on Krishna.com in a timely manner. For example, share an article about an upcoming festival with friends on Facebook, send out a tweet on Twitter, or promote it on your personal blog. By promoting content, you're helping to bring new people to Krishna.com, so they can come in touch with Krishna, the source of eternal happiness.

• Guide - Answer Visitor Questions

  In the forums (community section), via email, and via live text messaging / chat. If you're somewhat familiar with ISKCON and Krishna Consciousness, and you like to answer questions from visitors, this service may be for you.

• Researcher / Investigator

  Find source material for articles that need to be written. Use Google and other search engines to compile the facts, figures, statistics for a rough draft of a new article. Find images of temples and presiding deities to use in our online database. Verify ISKCON temple addresses, phone, fax, email listings for your area of the world.

• Interviewer

  Ask your friends, co-workers, or strangers questions to help us improve Krishna.com content. Example: 1) "What content would you expect to find on a website called Krishna.com? Specifically, what kind of articles, videos, images?" 2) " What kind of content (audio, video, pictures, articles) would you like to be able to access on a website about practical spiritual life? What content would make sense to you? In other words, if I tell you I'm creating a website on practical spiritual life, what kind of content would make you want to use the site, make the site relevant to you, make you recommend the site to others? What questions would it have to answer? What issues would it need to address for you to consider it a valuable resource?"

  We also need to take existing content on Krishna.com and re-write it to be relevant to an unfamiliar audience. To do so, we need to hear the perspective of an unfamiliar person, a) what they don't understand in an existing article, and b) what they do understand, and how to say it in language that makes sense to them. For example, take our article on "Who is Krishna?" and read it to someone who is not familiar with Krishna. Then ask them to a) tell us in their words, in a context that makes sense to them, what they understood Krishna to be, and b) to let us know terms or phrases or concepts that they would like to have explained or made sense of.

• Webcam Manager

  Each temple live webcam needs regular human interaction to ensure up-time and proper function of the image and sound transmission. Adopt one or more webcams and check them regularly. If you notice that something is wrong, communicate with on-location volunteers via email and / or phone and fix the issues.

• Section Manager

  Manage a section of Krishna.com. For example, adopt the "videos" section and search the Internet for relevant, informative videos about Krishna conscious topics to add to our list. Or, adopt the "Travel and Holy Places" section and compile relevant articles, videos, audio material to feature in that section. Make your section as comprehensive and informative as it can possibly be to serve Krishna.com visitors.

• Page Manager

  Adopt a page on Krishna.com. Make it your baby. Help improve the content, add relevant video, audio, illustrations... make it the best it can be.